The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission labeled Flight 90, a routine test profile slipped just far enough out of ...
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That time NASA pilots flew a jet to the edge of the atmosphere
In the late 1950s and 1960s, the X-15 pushed the limits of speed and altitude like no aircraft before it. Born under NACA and ...
An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...
9NEWS 6 a.m. we opened up a supersonic window into a very unique part of NASA's early history: Nasa's X-15 rocket plane. It was the precursor to the shuttle, and the test pilots who flew it truly had ...
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